Due to increasing practical needs, the software support of environmental protection and research tasks is continuously growing in importance and scope. ISESS 2004 is the 9th event in the conference series organised by IFIP (
International
Federation for Information Processing) Working Group 5.11, "Computers and Environment". The purpose of the symposium is to present and discuss the progress and actual trends in Enviromatics in terms of methods, tools and state-of-the-art applications.
This conference was held at the Panhans Hotel in Semmering, Austria from May 27 - 30, 2003.